Chapter 8 - Fibrous Joints

Question 1

Articulating bones fastened together by a thin layer of dense connective tissue containing many collagenous fibers

Answer 1

Fibrous joints

Question 2

Fibrous joints are named because the dense connective tissue holding them together includes many

Answer 2

Collagenous fibers

Question 3

Fibrous joints are between bones in

Answer 3

close contact

Question 4

The three types of fibrous joints are

Answer 4

Syndesmosis, sutures, and gomphosis

Question 5

In what kind of fibrous joint are the bones bound by a sheet or bundle of sense connective tissue?

Answer 5

Syndesmosis

Question 6

What kind of fibrous joint are only between the flat bones of the skull?

Answer 6

Sutures

Question 7

In what kind of fibrous joint is a joint formed by the union of a cone-shaped bony process?

Answer 7

Gomphosis

Question 8

For example, where does a syndesmosis lie?

Answer 8

Between the tibia and fibula

Question 9

The SHEET of connective tissue in a syndesmosis joint

Answer 9

Interosseous membrane

Question 10

This joint is flexible and may be twisted

Answer 10

Syndesmosis

Question 11

The thin layer of dense connective tissue in a suture

Answer 11

Sutural ligament

Question 12

Allow the skull to change shape slightly during childbirth, replaced by sutures as the bones continue to grow

Answer 12

Fontanels

Question 13

In a gomphosis joint, the ligament that surrounds the root of a tooth and firmly attaches it to the bone with bundles of thick collagenous fibers is called a

Answer 13

Periodontal ligament